Report Problem Since Updating Gnucash

[Matthew Lybanon]

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> From: Matthew Lybanon <lybanon at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Report Problem Since Updating Gnucash
> Date: September 4, 2015 at 10:05:33 AM CDT
> To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> 
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>> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU <mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU>>
>> Subject: Re: Report Problem Since Updating Gnucash
>> Date: September 4, 2015 at 8:57:28 AM CDT
>> To: Matthew Lybanon <lybanon at earthlink.net <mailto:lybanon at earthlink.net>>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> 
>> Hi Matthew,
>> 
>> Matthew Lybanon <lybanon at earthlink.net <mailto:lybanon at earthlink.net>> writes:
>> 
>>> I’d appreciating some help in tailoring a Gnucash report—or choosing
>>> the correct report.  Sorry about the length of this post.
>>> 
>>> A club I belong to has an annual show that’s big enough to have its
>>> own account, and I’m the “show treasurer.”  All I need to do is
>>> balance a checkbook—just income and expenditures, no salaries, taxes,
>>> investments, etc.  For years I’ve used Gnucash very happily.  The
>>> software is capable of a lot more than I use it for, and it does what
>>> I need very well.
>>> 
>>> For a long time I stuck with an old version (2.4.13) of Gnucash.  I
>>> recently upgraded to version 2.6.7, and everything is fine—except for
>>> one report.  (I run Gnucash on a Mac under OS X 10.5.5, but I don’t
>>> think that has anything to do with the issue.)
>>> 
>>> The report in question shows all the transactions (+ and -) for a
>>> month, in chronological order, with a running balance.  Here is the
>>> beginning of a report generated by Gnucash 2.4.13 (I saved the html
>>> file on my hard drive), column headings and the first transaction:
>>> Date
>>> Description
>>> Transfer
>>> Deposit
>>> Withdrawal
>>> Balance
>>> 07/06/2015
>>> Check 1302 (details omitted)
>>> Expenses:Check
>>> 
>>> $118.23 <gnc-register:split-guid=d372c061e18e55b63e9516bdeab75633%23>	
>>> $13,536.49 <gnc-register:split-guid=d372c061e18e55b63e9516bdeab75633%23>
>>> 
>>> (I apologize if the columns don’t line up.)  The amount in the
>>> rightmost column is the checkbook balance after the transaction.  And
>>> here is the beginning of the same report (for a later month) generated
>>> by Gnucash 2.6.7:
>>> 
>>> Date
>>> Description
>>> Transfer
>>> Deposit
>>> Withdrawal
>>> Balance
>>> 08/06/2015
>>> Check 1303 (details omitted)
>>> Expenses:Check
>>> 
>>> $4,036.00 <gnc-register:split-guid=1fcf319a36c92431d5e149e36bd67fbc%23>	
>>> -$4,036.00 <gnc-register:split-guid=1fcf319a36c92431d5e149e36bd67fbc%23>
>>> While the earlier report shows the checkbook balance after the
>>> transaction in the rightmost column, the later report doesn’t.  It
>>> shows the result of applying the transaction to a zero initial
>>> balance.  (What’s more, I still have the old report in a tab in
>>> Gnucash.  Instead of showing the checkbook balance after the
>>> transaction, as it did before, now the rightmost column of the old
>>> report shows the result of applying the transaction to a zero balance.
>>> I understand that Gnucash re-generates reports each time it starts
>>> up—which means now old reports have the same problem as new ones.)
>>> 
>>> I’m obviously not a “power user” of Gnucash, but I’ll describe how I
>>> created the report.  In the Gnucash tab that shows, in effect, the
>>> checkbook register (Assets:Current Assets:MyAccount), I choose Filter
>>> By… in the View menu.  On the Date tab I choose Select Range/Choose
>>> Date, and enter the beginning and ending dates for the period I want.
>>> Then I choose Account Report from the Reports menu.  I eliminate two
>>> columns I’m not interested in (Num and Memo), and there’s the report,
>>> showing the transactions for the selected period.
>>> 
>>> As well as I can remember, that’s how I did it when I was running
>>> Gnucash 2.4.13.  Can someone tell me what I need to do to have the
>>> “Balance” column show the running balance from the checkbook register,
>>> rather than what it shows now?
>> 
>> Is this ia Custom Report (that you wrote?) or is this one of the GnuCash
>> reports?  If the latter, which report?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
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>> 
>> -derek
>> -- 
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ <http://web.mit.edu/warlord/>    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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> 
> Not a custom report.  It’s one of the built-in GnuCash reports.  Reports Menu:  Account Report, after selecting the date range for which I want to see transactions.
> 


I haven’t seen any further replies for several days.  I hope my answer didn’t get lost.  The report I’m having trouble with is one of the built-in Gnucash reports, not a custom report.